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By Frank DeFrank, Macomb Daily Staff Writer  Click here for link to the story

Administrators to take unpaid furlough days, reduced benefits totaling $880,000

More than 100 Utica Community Schools administrators will absorb concessions next school year totaling nearly $880,000, district officials announced this week.

Administrators will take as many as six unpaid furlough days during the 2010-11 school year and pay 20 percent of their health insurance premiums.

The concessions are part of an attempt to offset an anticipated $33 million budget shortfall next school year.

From the Executive Director Jim Ballard

The next ten weeks is the season for non-renewal for school administrator employment contracts. If your contract is at risk, please call us early in the process. Please, don’t wait. More than once I’ve had members call asking for help and telling me that the Board meeting was scheduled that afternoon!

By Lisa Swem
Thrun Law Firm

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By Jim Ballard
Executive Director

By Peter Silveri
MASB Labor Relations Consultant

November 12, 2009

As part of the state's efforts to both improve education and collect on some federal grant funds, Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan announced Thursday the 13 districts that qualified under his Project ReImagine.

The nine school districts, three intermediate school districts and one charter school are intended to be demonstration projects for changing how education is provided in the state.

"We are excited that so many districts worked collaboratively with community partners to reimagine education and propose system-wide reform," Mr. Flanagan said. "These are incubators of reform that push the current limits and eventually can be replicated in schools across Michigan."

This editorial very succintly advocates for MASSP's position on the Principal's Bill of Rights.  It's a good read!  Diane

baltimoresun.com

Power to the Principal

In 1994, the Michigan Legislature enacted Public Act 112.  PA 112 amended the Public Employment Relations Act (PERA) by putting more teeth into the longstanding ban on strikes and by delineating prohibited subjects of bargaining.  While wages, hours, and working conditions remain mandatory subjects of bargaining, the prohibited subjects are:

1. Determination of the Insurance Policyholder

Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R-Rochester) has apparently offered to help House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Twp.) with his proposal to have all state and local employees operate with a single health insurance system by starting the proposal in the Senate if needed.

It appears Mr. Dillon has not responded to the offer at this point, a spokesperson for Mr. Bishop said.